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We are K.A.G.E !

What does K.A.G.E mean?

K - K-Flow

A - And

G - Gipsy in

E - Exile

We are two Roma brothers Kefaet aka K-Flow and Selami aka Gypsy from Germany. Kefaet is born in Kosovo and left Kosovo when he was four years old with his parents and older brother, and Selami is born in Germany in Essen. In May 2010 because of political agreements between Kosovo and Germany, we got deported to Kosovo, a country we never have never been to in which our parents grew up… We are one of the 2000 who are deported to Kosovo and about 10 000 awaiting their deportation in Germany.

The day we crossed the Kosovo land for the first time, we meet Sami Mustafa, a film director, and he immediately started to make a documentary about us. By the end of this year 2014 (after 4 long years following us) the film will come out.

It is time that we make use our best tools we have - write and compose a hip-hop songs about our experience.

Who are We?

We are musicians; we write and compose hip-hop songs and mostly songs about-facing this racistic issue of deportation, mistreatment and we want to show it by recording album “Kage”. This music will be also be used as a soundtrack for Nakhino feature documentary film produced by Romawood.

Living in Kosovo for the last four years, we feel no less than living in a Cage. We cannot visit/see our parents, our older brother and Kefaets two children are still living in Germany – for us this represents the cage we live in “K.A.G.E”.

No human is less than a another. The album inspired by our own ethnical background and history provoked by the system which is pushing to divide people which goes against the believes of the Roma being.

Whats the Songs About?

The product reflects tolerance; solidarity, unity, social integration and inter-cultural education influenced by the journey the artists forced to experience of unexpected situation (struggling to survive in Kosovo). And represents a verbal protest against violation of our basic human rights – a right to live where we belong… we face situations all over Balkan by trying to survive and facing several mental, social, emotional and economical problems within the society and government across Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia and Kosovo.

Which tells a Roma/gipsy story in an original way, the situations that are used in the lyrics are stories that were being witnessed by the brothers, such as mistreating or abusing human rights and even worse ignored human rights in and around the East and Eastern-Europe.

The K.A.G.E album is a colorful mix of different music genres, languages and artists inspired by the old slavery and black music culture (jazz, blues, funk, soul, Hip-Hop, R&B, dancehall, Indie rock, alternative, oriental jazz, ethno music and many more) mixed with a very wide pool of several guests taking part in this album/compilation presented to you by Kefaet (K-Flow) Prizreni and Selami (Gipsy) Prizreni.

Alles Varbannt - Kosovo 2012

Alles Verbant was produce as a protest video shown in the Germany against the Roma deportation in December 2012.

Sami is an Independent filmmaker that gives opportunity to young Roma people to learn and to express other Roma lives, experience and identity through artistic methods, producing documentary films. Sami made his first film as a trainee in 2003 in Plemetina village in Kosovo, where the native of this town learned the techniques of film making with Balkan... Voir la suite

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Sami is an Independent filmmaker that gives opportunity to young Roma people to learn and to express other Roma lives, experience and identity through artistic methods, producing documentary films. Sami made his first film as a trainee in 2003 in Plemetina village in Kosovo, where the native of this town learned the techniques of film making with Balkan Sunflowers NGO. Sami has produced more than twenty documentaries, docu-fiction, and music videos on Roma culture, art, human rights and social life in Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, France and Slovenia in cooperation with partners Balkan Sunflowers, Luksus Produkcija, Koperativa, NISI MASA, Local Democracy Agency Nis Serbia, Local Democracy Agency Gjilan Kosovo, Dosta Campaign, etc. One of his films "Road to Home", was screened at Cannes Film Festival in 2007; it was the only Kosovar film presented.
In 2007, Sami founded Romawood, a production house focusing on Roma issues and population. Later that same year, he initiated the “Jekh Kham Jekh Sel/One Sun One Nation” project, which has made the most indelible impact on his life and work. “Nachi Palem Khere/Never Back Home”, his last documentary. Sami also took the initiative to one of the greatest Roma event in Kosovo as an artistic director of Rolling Film Festival – films made by and about Roma around the world, he is also a member of International Romani Film Commission in Berlin fostering Roma Cinema in Europe.

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